New Tibet is to planets what the American West was to the frontier landscapes: a tantalizing expanse of unexploited resources just waiting to make the most adventurous and the most resourceful rich. People from all walks of life were enticed away from their homes with the prospect of prosperity… only to discover that life there was tough, expensive, corrupt and controlled by those who came ahead of them. For many, it’s a miserable existence that’s nearly impossible to escape because the cost of the trip home is more than they an afford. Within this setting, everyone must figure out how to scrape by if they're going to survive, and the stories in Breaking the Ice tend to focus on these bleak themes. But even within these challenging conditions, people still find their own ways to experience joy and happiness, and the stories in Shadows in Snow lean more towards hopeful themes in the face of adversity. The novel Common and Precious explores the relationships between social classes high and low, crime, fear and compassion in greater detail.

Interested in submitting? Here are some important and helpful resources:

Please submit stories through our New Tibet form on Submittable. Submissions are open through April 30, 2018. As always, please follow the submission guidelines!

E-book editions of Breaking the Ice, and Shadows in Snow are in the works, but will not be ready for at least a month. Conversion of the original layout files into e-book format is underway. However, we also need to write updated contracts with our original contributors: the original contracts were written back before we had started creating e-books, and they only included publication rights for print, not digital formats.

Breaking the Ice was Sofawolf Press’s first novel-format book. How far back in time was that? January 2002, when it was released, Jeff and Rio (the original Sofawolf mascot) had just moved to Minnesota from Massachusetts. In the subsequent 16 years we’ve moved operations between three different home basements, added a storage locker, and then expanded into a warehouse space for the Digger Omnibus Kickstarter, and most recently to yet another warehouse space when the lease on the first expired. Sadly, Rio and her understudy, Wizard, have both passed (we miss them greatly!), and we now have Sofawolves #3 and #4 in Gypsy and Zeena.

We are excited with the start to a new era of New Tibet stories, and we look forward to what new submissions come in! All are welcome, whether you have been inspired by New Tibet’s world for years, or if this is totally new to you.